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R. H. Dana saavutas üleüldise tuntuse teosega „Kaks aastat purjede all”, mis kirjeldab autori poolt lihtmadrusena 1834.–1836. a sooritatud merereisi prikil Pilgrim Bostonist ümber Hoorni neeme California rannikule ja sama marsruuti pidi tagasisuunas purjelaeval Alert. Kaks pikka merereisi läbi teinud autoril õnnestus luua üle aegade kestev teos, milles leidub purjelaevaromantika kõrval ka tollase madruseelu ränkust ja ohte. Kahe merereisi vahel viibis autor kaua California rannikul, kus ta koos kaaslastega varus härjanahku, mis olid nende laevade peamiseks lastiks. See oli aeg, mil San Francisco, San Diego jt tulevased suured sadamad…

Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is only nineteen when he abandons the patrician world of Boston and Harvard for an arduous voyage among real sailors, amid genuine danger. The result is an astonishing read, replete with vivid descriptions of storms, whales, and the ship’s mad captain, terrible hardship and magical beauty, and fascinating historical detail, including an intriguing portrait of California…

Книга известного американского писателя XIX столетия Ричарда Генри Даны посвящена описанию морского путешествия автора в качестве простого матроса на паруснике из Атлантического океана в Тихий вдоль берегов Северной и Южной Америки вокруг мыса Горн. Это — подробный дневник из жизни американского торгового судна; поэтичное описание морской стихии и ее обитателей; интересный этнографический документ о жизни и быте полинезийцев, калифорнийских индейцев и мексиканцев. Это, наконец, социологический очерк, характеризующий положение матросов американского торгового флота того времени. Адресуется широкому кругу читателей.

In 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class. Dana’s account of his passage around Cape Horn to California, and back, is a remarkable portrait of the seagoing life: the day-to-day routines and conversations, the sailors who manned the ship, the brutality of incompetent officers, and the style of life in the newly emerging coastal towns of California. As Thomas Philbrick discusses in his introduction, the public’s sympathy for the plight of mariners, which was aroused by the book, eventually faded, but Two Years Before the Mast…

"Two Years Before the Mast" is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834. With the onset of the 1849 California Gold Rush, Dana's book was one of the few books in existence that described California, adding greatly to the book's readership as well as Dana's renown and legacy. When he returned to San Francisco in 1859 he was treated as a minor celebrity. To this day the book is regarded as a valuable historical resource describing 1830s California.

R. H. Dana saavutas ?le?ldise tuntuse teosega „Kaks aastat purjede all”, mis kirjeldab autori poolt lihtmadrusena 1834.–1836. a sooritatud merereisi prikil Pilgrim Bostonist ?mber Hoorni neeme California rannikule ja sama marsruuti pidi tagasisuunas purjelaeval Alert. Kaks pikka merereisi l?bi teinud autoril ?nnestus luua ?le aegade kestev teos, milles leidub purjelaevaromantika k?rval ka tollase madruseelu r?nkust ja ohte. Kahe merereisi vahel viibis autor kaua California rannikul, kus ta koos kaaslastega varus h?rjanahku, mis olid nende laevade peamiseks lastiks. See oli aeg, mil San Francisco, San Diego jt tulevased suured sadamad…